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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabeth Piest's 46th birthday, and before a family party, she stopped by a pharmacy in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Ill., to pick up her 15-year-old son Robert. Just as Mrs. Piest and her son were about to leave the store, he said, "Mom, wait a minute, I've got to talk to a contractor about a summer job that will pay me $5 an hour." That was the last Mrs. Piest saw of her son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Though the police are sometimes cavalier in dealing with reports of missing teenagers, Mrs. Piest's call for help reached Lieut. Joseph Kozenczak, whose son attended the same high school as the missing youth. He began investigating, and he soon found the contractor Piest had mentioned, John Wayne Gacy, 36, owner of the P.D.M. Construction Co., which had been renovating the drugstore. There was evidence that Piest had been at Gacy's brick ranch house-a receipt for a roll of Piest's film was found there-but Gacy appeared to be a respectable citizen, a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late '60s, she has moved from one federal agency to another. Married to John Sawhill, onetime energy czar under President Nixon and now president of her alma mater, N.Y.U., she is the mother of a son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Catch-Up for Calculating Women | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Johnson's reputation as an enfant terrible, floating like a butterfly between the styles and stinging like a bee at the conferences, goes back a long way. It is grounded in his wealth; he did not need to build for a living. The son of a well-off Cleveland lawyer who handed over to him a bundle of stock in a new company named Alcoa, Johnson lives in a manner unrivaled by many architects since the days of the gentlemen dilettanti of Georgian England. He maintains several buildings for his personal use, most of them in a rolling park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Maverick Designer | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

ENGAGED. Debby Boone, 22, pop singer (You Light Up My Life) and daughter of wholesome, white-bucked Pat Boone; and Gabriel Ferrer, 21, son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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